Abstract
This paper aims to analyze the novel The Armies of the Night, by Norman Mailer, as a record of a march on the Pentagon held on October 1967 in a great protest against the Vietnam War. But, before approaching the novel itself, it is important to present some social and historical data in order to contextualize Mailer’s narrative within the historical frame. It is relevant to stress that some facts quoted in the beginning of this paper are cited in the novel.
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Resumo: Este artigo tem por fim analisar o romance Os Exércitos da Noite (The Armies of the Night), de Norman Mailer, como um registro da marcha sobre o Pentágono ocorrida em outubro de 1967 em um grande protesto contra a Guerra do Vietnã
As Mailer was always concerned about the development of American political and social issues, he attempted to present in his 1968 novel a personal view of the historical event that was the march on the Pentagon in October of 1967, in which he, according to Bradbury and Ruland (1991, p. 382) “confronted the way realities are constructed by questioning the basic relation of historical actuality and fiction”
The march on the Pentagon turned into material for the narrative Mailer wrote, alternating the first and third persons in order to shape and contrast the conventions that guided the historical text as well as the literary composition
Summary
Resumo: Este artigo tem por fim analisar o romance Os Exércitos da Noite (The Armies of the Night), de Norman Mailer, como um registro da marcha sobre o Pentágono ocorrida em outubro de 1967 em um grande protesto contra a Guerra do Vietnã. The march included many important activists and intellectuals like Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Dwight MacDonald, Noam Chomsky, the poet Robert Lowell and the novelist Norman Mailer who documented the march, the arrests, and the events in a memorable non-fiction novel called The Armies of the Night.
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